Another eventful year is drawing to a close. A look back at some of the biggest stories and the winners and losers, the joy and the tears, the highs and the lows of 2012 all covered across the Splashpress Media network.

Obama Wins Second Term, Celebratory Image Smashes Records. Celebrities Show Their Support

Barack Obama won a second term in office and shared a celebratory image of him and Michelle hugging. The image became a huge hit as the most liked image on Facebook to date along with the highest amount of re-tweets.

Apple Gazette Captures A Peek Inside Appple HQ

In April Robin Parish, editor of The Apple Gazette put together a fantastic set of unseen images from inside Apple’s secretive HQ or the ‘Mothership’ as its referred to by Apple fans. Robin has been busy updating the post with any new images he has gleaned over the year and it now boasts a whopping 156 shots!

London Olympics via Instagram

Instagram was the biggest hits of the year for the tech industry and during the summer Olympics held in London it proved it self to be the main platform for capturing and sharing images from the events with over 64,000 images taken in total.

Samsung Loses Landmark Case Against Apple

In the case of ‘did they or didnt they copy Apple’ the jury final ruled that Samsung had infringed copyright laws. Samsung were then forced to payout $1 billion dollars to their rivals with Samsung issuing a statement that it was “a loss for the American consumer” and Google certainly sitting up and taking note.

Kristen Stewart & Rupert Sanders – Celebrity Scandal Of The Year

In July Twilight star Kristen Stewart was caught by US Weekly cuddling and being intimate with Rupert Sanders the director of the movie she was starring in ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’. Twilight fans couldn’t believe it with many of them losing it on YouTube (for a change). RPatz was humiliated and soon moved out of their home only to take KStew back conveniently in time for the release of their latest Breaking Dawn movie.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year from everyone at Splashpress Media!

A look back at the last 30 days from the Splashpress Media technology and media sites.

Obama Photo Makes History

Barack and Michelle Obama’s 2012 Election celebration photo broke social media records the morning after the US 2012 election by becoming the most Liked in Facebook history. It also went on to break the Biebs Twitter record with the photo generating 649,575 retweets.

Hurricane Sandy And How You Can Help

Hurricane Sandy devastated large portions of the East coast US at the end of October almost delaying the presdidential elections and killing over 200 hundred people. Thousands of homes were destroyed by the hurricane which spanned over 1,000 miles and many families are still homeless. If you are looking for easy ways to contribute to charities who are assisting with the clean up then Noemi’s fundraising apps review is an excellent place to start.

For those of you who follow our blogging and freelance writing sites such as Freelancewritinggigs.com and Bloggingpro.com you may have experienced some difficulty in accessing these pages for the last week or so, this was due to some technical hiccups on one of our main servers, we’d just like to apologise to anyone who wasn’t able to access the sites during these periods and also say thank you to all our followers at FWJ and Blogging Pro who kept patient and also sent us all the concerned emails, Tweets and FB messages! Thank fully we are now back and have everything up and running again.

A round up of news from the Splashpress New Media channel for the last 30 days….

The Future of SEO

With another huge Google update in the form of Penguin having rippling affects earlier in the year many people have been both questioning the future of SEO and some even saying that as an industry and skill set it is on its way out. Rajeen Shah from Marketappeal.com guest posted on the future of SEO and where he sees it going in the future.

Social Media A Distraction?

So apparently social media is a distraction……..no seriously, some institutions are getting round to telling us this. In a visualised report by Red e app employees are being distracted at work at least every 10 minutes and costing US companies almost $650 billion.

How Cinema Loves the Internet

Social media made it to the silver screen in 2010 with the Academy award winning movie ‘The Social Network’ and suddenly being a tech nerd was cool and the Facebook founder Mark Zukerburg is on the front of Time magazine and later is impersonated by SNL star Andy Samberg. We are still waiting on Hollywood to make a blogging related movie but in the meantime we took a look back at some tech related Hollywood movies

Being a Great Blogger is Easy. Wrong.

If you have been blogging for a while now you will know its not easy, many people start off brimming with enthusiasm and expectations only to become discouraged when they realise its a full on up-hill battle. Jonathan Bailey takes a look at how this can be done but without any short cuts.

Other posts of interest from the New Media Channel

Splashpress Media is proud to announce that as of last week we are now the new owners of Spyrestudios.com! SpyreStudios is a fantastic online magazine for web-design and development enthusiasts that has been going from strength since its inception in 2007.

The content will continue to be headed by Jake Rocheleau, a young yet highly experienced designer and writer who has been coding and building sites since 2006.

For current readers and followers of SpyreStudios do keep a close eye on the site as you are going to see some exciting additions to the community in the next few weeks and months!

SpyreStudios is an excellent addition to our design channel of sites that already consists of Devlounge and our premium blog consultation and design wing at Businesslogs.